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Bilingual International Section (SIB) of the Department of Engineering Science & Technology (STPI)

The SIB was set up in 1999 with the dual mission :

To provide international students with
a specially-tailored environment to ensure their success at INSA

To prepare French and international
students for their future careers in a global environment by gaining
understanding of different cultures.

The SIB
recruits about 100 students annually, with equal numbers of French and
international students.

The programme
runs parallel to the classic French language section of the STPI and the course
content is the same.

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It begins with a mandatory
3-week pre-session summer school offering intensive French language and science
methodology courses

·
The first three semesters of
common core curriculum are taught 50% in French/50% in English

·
In addition to training in professional
communication skills in English, French language
(FLE or "français langue étrangère") courses are
provided as a second foreign language

·
The teaching is mainly done in
small groups of around 25 students

After
successfully completing the first three semesters of SIB, the students join those
from the classic section for their choice of semester 4 electives
according to the specialization they wish to take for the following 3 years of
study for the INSA Engineering degree (M.Sc./M.Eng).